Mercedes-Benz Amg Gle53, Mercedes-Benz Amg Gle63 S, Mercedes-Benz Amg Gls63, Mercedes-Benz Gle 350, Mercedes-Benz Gle 400 E, Mercedes-Benz Gle 450, model years 2020 to 2022. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 12 September 2022. 161,000 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2020-2022 GLE350, GLE450, GLS450, 2021-2022 AMG GLE53, 2020-2021 GLE580, GLS580, and 2021 GLE400e, AMG GLS63, AMG GLE63 S, and Maybach GLS600 vehicles. Due to a manufacturing error, the rear door window trim bars may detach.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Mercedes-Benz's own number for this recall: 2022090010. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V680 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 22V680 cover?
- Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle53, Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle63 S, Mercedes-Benz AMG GLS63, Mercedes-Benz Gle 350, Mercedes-Benz Gle 400 E, Mercedes-Benz Gle 450, Mercedes-Benz Gle 580, Mercedes-Benz GLS 450, model years 2020-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2020-2022 GLE350, GLE450, GLS450, 2021-2022 AMG GLE53, 2020-2021 GLE580, GLS580, and 2021 GLE400e, AMG GLS63, AMG GLE63 S, and Maybach GLS600 vehicles. Due to a manufacturing error, the rear door window trim bars may detach.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Detached trim bars may cause a road hazard and increase the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and secure the rear window trim bars, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 1, 2022. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2022090010.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mercedes-Benz calls this recall 2022090010, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Detached trim bars may cause a road hazard and increase the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V680 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Structure:Body |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 September 2022 |
| Model years | 2020-2022 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLE53, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLE63 S, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLS63, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE 350, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE 400 E, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE 450, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE 580, MERCEDES-BENZ GLS 450, MERCEDES-BENZ GLS 580, MERCEDES-BENZ GLS450, MERCEDES-BENZ GLS580, MERCEDES-BENZ MAYBACH GLS600 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Detached trim bars may cause a road hazard and increase the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and secure the rear window trim bars, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 1, 2022. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2022090010.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle53 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle63 S recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG GLS63 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle 350 recalls: 41 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle 450 recalls: 41 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle 580 recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GLS 450 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GLS450 recalls: 20 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GLS580 recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Maybach GLS600 recalls: 5 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 22V680, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v680/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 22V680 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8b25ed58 - Consequence
b6815e94 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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